Tiny House Stairs

I’ve seen a couple of designs on other websites recently for steep space-saving stairs. Using those ideas as inspiration I’ve come up with a simple way to build a stairs from a couple of long 2×12’s. The way you achieve such a steep grade is by alternating the steps with the way people actually climb. Not pictured here is the hand rail which would be needed for safety. I’ve also posted the Tiny House Stairs Google SketchUp file for those of you who have installed Google’s free 3D illustration software on your computers.

michaeljanzen

Kat

Wow, everything listed in the Interiors section is incredible. I just stumbled on your site. I'm studying to be an interior designer, and this is the kind of stuff that drives me mad.. in a good way. Even if a specific design doesn't look viable in real life (would hate to sleep on that box-guest bed), the concepts really get the gears turnning! Hope you post more stuff like this in the future.

Perhaps not a concept for a super-tiny or portable house, I read about this architect a while ago.. Gary Chang and his “Domestic Transformer” home, (featured on treehugger & apartmenttherapy, and others). Cool concept, definitely worth a peek. Love the idea of walls that move.

jay

An ex’s dad hand-built a set of stairs like this leading up to the family home’s loft in Ucluelet, BC.

Rather than a single, centre stringer (as shown) he had the stairs alternating between two very deep stringers on the outsides which – when combined with a routered groove on the outside edge of each – formed a handhold for climbing. Their cats had no problem jumping from stair to stair whether going up or down.

Definitely not the greatest when you’re half (or fully) in the bag (speaking from experience)… but excellent otherwise.

valve79

G

I have a set of stairs just like this. It’s easy, even if you’re in the bag. Unless you want to turn around on the stairs.

People are scared of them, though. They’re steep, and they look really weird. So they tend to try to go down them backwards, as if they’re a ladder, which is harder than going down forwards.

The single-stringer design is on purpose in my case — the stairway is in a hallway. Not having a rail or an outer stringer means that you can easily move stuff down the hall, because you can slip the legs of the chair between the treads of the stairs on your way past, or whatever.